Promoting, advancing and defending Intelligent Design via data, logic and Intelligent Reasoning and exposing the alleged theory of evolution as the nonsense it is.
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Sunday, February 28, 2010

Thorton on design detection

-This is good.

When I asked blipey How do you think people detect design?, Thorton chimed in with:

Humans do it by pattern matching an unknown object with one that is previously known to be designed, and the designer and mechanism of design / fabrication are previously known also.

For one it isn't an unknown object if we know who designed it and how it was fabricated.

Also is Thorton saying we can only detect design if we previously knew it was designed?

And what happens in unique situations? Scenarios in which we don't have past experience?

Back to Thorton- With Stonehenge, for example, we didn't know who or how until well after it was determined to be designed.

Stonehenge was identified as being human designed because it pattern matched other paleolithic artifacts previously known to be built by humans, using tools, techniques, and materials previously known to be employed by humans, in an area previously known to contain objects designed by humans.